3rd International PPRI Conference 12-13 October 2015, Vienna, Austria Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies: Challenges beyond the Financial Crisis ________________________________ Dear Sir or Madam, We would like to extent a very warm invitation to the 2015 Vienna PPRI Conference on October 12-13, entitled 'Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies: Challenges Beyond the Financial Crisis'. For the third time the PPRI Conference in Vienna brings together around 300 high-level academics, stakeholders and policy-makers to discuss current challenges and opportunities in the area of pharmaceutical policies. Recent developments, such as newly developed high-cost medicines as in the Hepatitis C case, are associated with issues of affordability and access and raise important questions for pricing and reimbursement strategies. The conference aims to bring together thought leaders from around the globe to discuss 'burning' issues in pricing and reimbursement policies of pharmaceuticals - both from a global as well as European perspective. Current challenges and opportunities will be discussed, in particular also policy coordination and interface management. Further, the impacts and lessons learned from policies implemented in response to the financial crisis will be debated. The WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies in Vienna invites you to take part in the discussions with renowned experts and high-level representatives in the pharmaceutical field. Registrations for the Conference are now open, and can be found under: http://whocc.goeg.at/Conference2015/Registration Special Early Bird conditions apply to all registrations done prior to June 1st, 2015. Specific sessions of the conference are dedicated to allow researchers and policy-makers to present and discuss recent activities related to pharmaceutical policies. You are warmly invited to submit your abstracts by 15 May 2015. Details on the call for abstracts can be found here: http://whocc.goeg.at/Conference2015/CallForAbstracts A young researcher award will be given to the best abstract submission by a researcher below the age of 35. For further information on the Conference please visit our Website http://whocc.goeg.at/Conference2015 and do not hesitate to contact our team. Please feel free to share with your networks. Kind regards, The PPRI Conference Organizing Team